egoism

01/03/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram with Dyuman

Self Respect and Superiority

Self-respect and a sense of superiority are two very different things. Self-respect is not necessarily a sign of egoism any more than its absence is a […]
09/07/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How does true repose comes?

The minute one stops going forward, one falls back. The moment one is satisfied and no longer aspires, one begins to die. Life is movement, it […]
08/13/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

A Prayer

The being stands before Thee, with arms lifted, palms open, in an ardent aspiration. O sweet Master, it is a Love more wonderful and formidable than […]
06/20/2022

Action and Egoism

Q: How to do action without desire? How can one be free from action and egoism? The word “egoism” is used in a very limited sense […]
05/23/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Overcoming Suffering

Q: How can suffering be overcome?   The problem is not as simple as all that. The causes of suffering are innumerable and its quality also […]
05/19/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Cause of All Difficulties

In human life the cause of all difficulties, all discords, all moral sufferings, is the presence in everyone of the ego with its desires, its likes […]
03/10/2020

Obstacles on the path of Progress

There are only three fundamental obstacles that can stand in the way: (1) Absence of faith or insufficient faith (2) Egoism – the mind clinging to […]
07/10/2019

Servitors of the Divine

O Divine Master, grant that today may bring to us a completer consecration to Thy Will, a more integral gift of ourselves to Thy work, a […]
01/18/2018
Sri Aurobindo

Yoga and personal satisfaction

You may open millions of hospitals, that will not prevent people getting ill. On the contrary, they will have every facility and encouragement to fall ill. […]